JPA Maven Helper Plugin

This maven plugin helps multi module JPA development.

Generate entities

The generate-entities goal inspect all @Entity annotated class in classpath and dependent libraries and add to the persistence.xml (both main and test resources). The test resources presistence.xml contain all class plus the test classpath entities.

Configuration

Collect all dependencies and add it to all persistence-unit in persistence.xml (both main and test)

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>hu.javaportal.maven.plugin</groupId>
                <artifactId>jpa-maven-helper-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>generate-entities</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

Collect Filtering example

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>hu.javaportal.maven.plugin</groupId>
                <artifactId>jpa-maven-helper-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>generate-entities</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
                <configuration>
                    <filters>
                        <!-- If one or more filter exists, you need to write all persistence unit name -->
                        <!-- "persistence_unit_name_1" named persistence unit contains all found entity -->
                        <filter>
                            <name>persistence_unit_name_1</name>
                        </filter>

                        <!-- "persistence_unit_name_2" named persistence unit contains only com.xxx and com.yyy package units -->
                        <filter>
                            <name>persistence_unit_name_2</name>
                            <packages>
                                <package>com.xxx</package>
                                <package>com.yyy</package>
                            </packages>
                        </filter>
                    </filters>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>